Conveyors - Customised, innovative conveyor technology
HÖRMANN Klatt Conveyors from Neumarkt am Wallersee in Austria has been an important partner for companies worldwide in the field of conveyor systems for many years. Our portfolio includes a wide range of standardised conveyor technologies for a variety of applications, as well as special custom solutions.
We design and implement the best and most economical conveyor solutions
- Consulting and planning
- Manufacturing and pre-assembly
- Project management and execution
- Assembly and commissioning
- Service and maintenance
The Hawle Austria Group produces and distributes heavy-duty valves worldwide. These products, which have been under development for generations, are used in residential water management from source to home.
Precision, perfection, passion - that's what HÖRMANN Klatt Conveyors stands for. Our Made in Austria conveyor technology is known throughout Europe and covers the transport of pallets, packages, boxes and lumber stacks. We put great importance on implementing individual solutions perfectly - from development to construction and on-site assembly.
Our customers appreciate our professional project management, competence, high-quality product solutions and handshake quality. That's why HÖRMANN Klatt Conveyors is the best partner for you when it comes to conveyor, storage and systemisation technology.
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Individual conveyor systems
- Project timeline - from consulting to customer service
- Innovative special conveyor systems - from pallet to film transport setups
- Corporate culture and sustainability
Robotics
Moving Racks solution - goods-to-person (logistics) with robots and racks
Constantly increasing item volumes, along with ever increasing demands for fast and efficient order picking, pose new challenges for classic warehouse logistics. Working with SAFELOG, HÖRMANN Intralogistics has developed an innovative moving racks system for picking process automation, even for bulky goods, based on the goods-to-person principle.
Mobile transport robots (AGVs) transport the goods in modular racks, sequentially and just-in-time from the storage areas to the picking stations. HÖRMANN Intralogistics’ smart HILIS Warehouse Management System controls and monitors all picking processes to guarantee maximum performance.
The advantages at a glance
- Reduced staff and walking distances
- Flexible and modular expansion at any time with more AGVs or racks
- Picking areas can be supplemented by support systems, e.g. pick-by-light
- In multi-order picking configuration, the HiLIS WMS offers additional possibilities for increasing picking efficiency with intelligent batch formation.
What are Moving Racks?
Moving Racks replace or supplement traditional picking areas (man-to-goods) with high staffing levels and long walking distances, with an efficient, flexible system of modular shelving (racks) that are presented in a timely and sequential manner to the picking staff.
Rack transport from the storage areas to the picking workstations is carried out by mobile transport robots. This means that all system picking processes are intelligently contolled and monitored by software to ensure maximum performance and timely delivery.
Our Partner
The ever-increasing volume of items, added to the ever-increasing demand for fast and efficient order picking pose new challenges for classic warehouse logistics. With a range of robotic solution it’s possible to achieve significant cost savings and increase resource efficiency.
In the ideal case, this would involve combining several systems, such as a automated CubeStorage system by AutoStore for storage and retrieval and an AGV shuttle system for the subsequent connection to the packaging line. For these, as well as for stand-alone scenarios, we work closely with our partner Safelog, which manufactures autonomous shelf-lifting robots.
The solution in detail
Storage Area
In the HÖRMANN Intralogistics Moving Racks system, the storage area for all goods consists of the individual racks on their storage spaces. Different types of standardised racks can be combined with various interiors (e.g. EURO pallet, shelf or grid) or configured as individual racks.
All standard racks have the same 1280 mm x 900 mm footprint and a height of up to 2500 mm. The moving racks are placed in a grid layout with travel paths in between in the storage areas. The grid layout can be flexibly adapted to different local conditions, around obstacles or in separated areas.
In addition, areas close to the pick zones can be reserved for fast-moving items.
Maintenance and loading area
Battery charging stations for mobile robots are built-in to the Storage Area, and can be distributed and placed according to the available connection options. This way, mobile robots on charge are available for transport operations without an additional approach route. The robots manage their charge status independently, and always approach the charging stations in good time.
Picking Area
The Picking Area consists of one or more picking workstations and associated buffer locations. Each picking area is connected to the storage area by defined travel paths. The workstations themselves can be individually designed.
In the standard configuration, a workstation comprises two rack storage locations. This means the rack that follows can already be staged during a pick process. The staging areas are separated from the MA work area only by stop bars on the floor, to permit optimal accessibility of the moving racks.
In addition to the rack staging areas, the workstation includes a work table with a flat-screen display showing the HiLIS picking interface and target locations for the picked items. Destination locations can be floor carts, conveyor elements or pallet locations for example.
HÖRMANN Intralogistics - Moving Racks
The control system allows omnidirectional travel, so that a robot can move in any direction at any time. This increases the operational flexibility of the vehicles, as they can be maneuvered in very confined spaces. It also makes it possible to turn racks on the spot.
Mobile AGV robots by SAFELOG
SAFELOG mobile transport robots are used to transport the racks. With a height of just 340 mm, these driverless transport vehicles are equally suitable for driving under the racks as they are for transporting pallets or wire mesh boxes. The weight of the Topload can be up to 1,500 kg.
SAFELOG has developed an agent-based control system for the mobile robots, through which the individual vehicles communicate with each other and with the surrounding production and logistics facilities. This ‘swarm’ intelligence of the transport vehicles controls both route coordination and task distribution between the devices. This means they do not require a higher-level control station for their operation. The software configuration is customer-specific to the respective requirements and linked to the HiLIS WMS for order control.
To achieve the highest possible technical availability of the overall system, various navigation types are available, and can also be used in combination. Depending on the application conditions, magnetic track, RFID tags, virtual track and contour navigation are used individually or together as a hybrid navigation system.
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Bring your company into the advancing world of innovative logistics solutions. With our moving racks and mobile robots, you can significantly increase the efficiency and flexibility of all picking operations
Reference HAWLE
Automated high-bay warehouse for supply and disposal of production at E. Hawle Armaturenwerke in Austria
The Hawle Austria Group produces and distributes heavy-duty valves worldwide. The products, which are designed for generations, are used in residential water management from the source to the house connection. The Hawle Austria Group includes 12 subsidiaries in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Russia, Turkey, Italy, Great Britain and India.
A new logistics warehouse has been built at the E. Hawle Armaturenwerke GmbH production site in Frankenmarkt, Upper Austria, in order to reduce the rented external warehouses as far as possible. The realization of the 5-aisle high-bay warehouse as well as the connecting conveyor technology has been taken over by HÖRMANN Intralogistics as general contractor. IGZ, the SAP engineers from Falkenberg in Bavaria, implemented the entire logistics processes in SAP EWM with direct control of the warehouse technology by SAP MFS.
Concept
In the new high-bay warehouse, raw and semi-finished parts are temporarily stored for production or for staging in shipping. The production connection is made directly from production via a new, double-level conveyor system for pallets. In addition, a loading and unloading station is planned in the outer wall of the new logistics hall, which can be reached from the yard with forklifts and is approached dynamically by SAP EWM in exceptional situations to ensure production supply at all times.
The 5-aisle high-bay warehouse is equipped with five aisle-bound storage and retrieval machines (SRMs). These have telescopic forks for double-deep storage. Three-bay side-by-side storage is provided per rack compartment. The storage and retrieval stacks of the high-bay warehouse are connected to a loop conveyor line that extends into the logistics hall to pick up or drop off goods. All storage and retrieval machines are equipped with a compartment fine positioning system that detects both the front and rear z-positions.
Goods receiving and shipping for different load carriers
At goods receiving, normal load units are fed onto three conveyor sections with weight and contour control. Grid boxes are only fed onto the middle conveyor section. There, the loading station is fully automatically equipped with a wooden lower pallet onto which the wire mesh box is placed
The empty pallets required for this are held in stacks at a buffer station and transported individually towards the set-up station as required.
Highlights
- 5-aisle high-bay warehouse 70 x 40 x 29 m (L x W x H)
- 5 aisle-bound stacker cranes in single-mast design with telescopic forks for double-deep storage
- 32 pallet insertions and removals per hour per stacker crane
- Connecting pallet conveyor system
- Fire protection and high-speed gates
- Control technology with direct connection to SAP EWM / MFS
- Plant visualization
HÖRMANN Intralogistics Services - a strong partner for industry
From conception to commissioning, we work around the clock for renowned customers with our highly qualified, experienced staff, providing full life-cycle support and maintenance, as well as retrofit and modernization services for automated logistics facilities.
We are renowned for our technical competence in the field of electrical and mechanical technology, control systems, robotics, conveyor technology and software engineering and lifecycle management.
As a strong partner, we support our customers with future-proof and efficient automation solutions, sustainable energy management, customised retrofit measures to increase intralogistics system performance and, of course, 24/7 customer service via our intralogistics hotline.
»The experienced staff at the HÖRMANN Intralogistics Hotline has always managed to provide rapid, solution-oriented support whenever we’ve had any kind of problem.«
RALF GRAMBKE | INSTANDHALTUNG
ZERHUSEN KARTONAGEN GMBH
Intralogistics
Rapid access high-density small parts storage systems
We develop custom automated small parts warehouses or shuttle warehouses especially for low weight, high-turnover loads in bins, boxes or trays, ideal for classic warehouse functions as well as for buffer storage, goods service or use as a picking system.
The advantages at a glance
- More room in existing building structures for excellent space utilisation
- Lower construction costs for new warehouse space
- Enormous flexibility and redundancy
- High storage density
- Rapid access to goods (fully automated storage and retrieval)
- Maximum dynamics
- Remarkably high throughput rates
- Remarkable energy-efficient and sustainable through the use of power caps or buffer storage
- Custom solutions, perfectly adapted to your requirements and products
- Holistic support
- Goods-to-person or person-to-goods order picking
All you need to know about shuttle storage systems
Brochure - Intralogistic Solutions
Your contact - Michael Hoffmann
What are shuttle storage systems?
Automated small parts warehouses consist of one or more aisles where stacker cranes or shuttles store and retrieve totes, boxes or trays fully automatically, and serve them to picking stations.
Dynamic small parts storage for optimal space exploitation
The advantages of automated small parts warehouses include high storage density, rapid access to goods (fully automatic storage and retrieval) and optimal stock turnover rates. Shuttle systems in particular also offer maximum dynamics and particularly high throughput rates, enormous flexibility as well as ample redundancy. Using technology like power caps or buffer storage, these shuttle systems are remarkably energy-efficient and sustainable.
Incoming and outgoing storage is handled by shuttles or stacker cranes, and the automated small parts warehouses are linked to picking or other workstations via custom, innovative conveyor technology by HÖRMANN Klatt Conveyors.
Unlimited scalability
Another advantage is the almost unlimited scalability of the systems. Ever-shorter product life cycles, constantly changing product ranges and current market uncertainties make predictable business growth almost impossible. That's why we offer modular solutions that grow with your company and can be expanded as needed without too much effort.
Customised by a single source provider.
We implement your customer-specific system as general contractor. One contact, for everything from planning to commissioning.
Our intralogistics solutions - individual and future-proof
With creative storage and conveyor technology concepts as well as innovative warehouse logistics techniques, in our more than 35 years of activity we have implemented many custom-made intralogistics solutions in a wide range of industrial sectors.
We design high-bay warehouses as well as tray, miniload and shuttle warehouses specifically for your requirements, to ensure maximum productivity and cost-effectivenes.
As general contractor, we take overall responsibility for implementing new, complex storage systems
and modernising existing systems even during active operations.
The whole system is integrated with our HiLIS warehouse management system. HiLIS manages, controls and monitors all material flow processes on-line, ensuring maximum transparency and system availability in all functional areas.
With our modern, innovative AutoStore® small parts warehouse, dynamic robotics applications, goods-to-person picking systems and micro-fulfilment solutions, we offer flexible, highly dynamic systems especially for e-commerce.
Our customer service is available around the clock, 365 days a year.
What makes our automatic storage systems different?
Dynamic markets demand efficient storage and logistics strategies. Automated storage systems offer maximum availability, better use of space, higher productivity and inventory accuracy, lower operating costs, and sequence-accurate goods picking and shipping.
As general contractor, we can implement your individual, high-performance, scalable and space-optimised automated warehouse solutions.
We’ve been developing our in-house HiLIS smart warehouse management solution for over 30 years, exploiting its flexibly, modularity and scalability for a wide range of industries. It’s designed to operate with all ERP, production and shipping systems.
With HiLIS, all functional areas can be flexibly controlled, monitored, and statistically analysed.
This ensures the greatest possible transparency of your logistics processes, as well as maximum warehouse performance and availability.
Our HiLIS WMS is the core of the automatic or manual intralogistics procress control system in the solutions we develop for customers, in our role as full-service provider of custom intralogistics solutions.
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Intralogistics Solutions
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Als Partner renommierter nationaler und internationaler Kunden setzen wir innovative Impulse und neue Maßstäbe in der Intralogistik hinsichtlich Dynamik, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Innovation.
HÖRMANN Intralogistics bietet jahrzehntelang entwickelte Kernkompetenz in Automatisierung, IT und Industrieservice sowie die branchenübergreifende Erfahrung bei der Planung und Errichtung von schlüsselfertigen, automatisierten und datenoptimierten Lagerlösungen. Patentierte Fördertechnik- und preisgekrönte Robotik-Lösungen garantieren unseren Kunden das effizienteste Materialfluss-System aus einer Hand.
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Hohe, fehlerfreie Produktivität, geringe Betriebskosten und unkomplizierte Inbetriebnahme – gemeinsam mit leistungsfähigen Partnern verwirklichen wir innovative Robotik-Lösungen, die unabhängig oder gemeinsam mit anderen Lager- und Kommissioniersystemen implementiert werden können. Bedarfsgerechte Skalierbarkeit, schnelle Erweiterung und höchste Dynamik machen unsere Robotik-Anwendungen zur idealen Lösung für Wachstumsmärkte.
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